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Atomic Blonde opens with David Bowie’s Cat People (Putting Out Fires). The rest of the film works hard to ingratiate itself to a bi audience too. Charlize Theron plays an MI6 agent on a mission without a James Bond array of prescient gadgetry. It’s Berlin at the end of the 80s and around us the world is on the brink […]

Charlize Theron stars in Atomic Blonde this summer, a “breakneck action-thriller” that about an MI6 assassin. And she’s bisexual, if the gratuitous trailer didn’t drop you the hint. The top agent of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, and definitely not a character created out of frustration at double-oh-seven always being a bloke, Agent Lorraine Broughton (played by Theron) has been […]